This paper proposes the procedure to find out the total average cost in terms of crisp values for /M/1/BD/MV with fuzzy parameters. In which arrival rate, service rate, batch size, setup, vacation, breakdown, repair rates, and the start up ,build up, holding, setup, dormant, breakdown costs and cost for busy and vacation periods are all considered as trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. As ranking techni...

The problem of dynamic scheduling for single machine manufacturing systems has been extensively studied in the past under different setup scenarios, mainly for systems with infinite buffer capacity. This paper addresses a general framework and investigates similarities and differences between policies optimal if setup times and costs are or are not negligible, if buffers have a finite or an inf...

Existing blind adaptive equalizers that use nonconvex cost functions and stochastic gradient descent suffer from lack of global convergence to an equalizer setup that removes sufficient IS1 when an FIR equalizer is used. In this paper, we impose convexity on the cost function and anchoring of the equalizer away from the all-zero setup. We establish that there exists a globally convergent blind ...

We consider the problem of allocating a single server to a system of queues with Poisson arrivals. Each queue represents a class of jobs and possesses a holding cost rate, general service distribution, and a setup cost. The objective is to minimize the expected cost due to the waiting of jobs and the switching of the server. A setup cost is required to eeect an instantaneous switch from one que...

This paper presents an enhanced heuristic for minimizing the makespan of the ow shop scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times. The procedure transforms an instance of the problem into an instance of the traveling salesman problem by introducing a cost function that penalizes for both large setup times and bad tness of schedule. This hybrid cost function is an improvement over earl...

In this work, the design of a low-cost, field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based digital hardware platform that implements image processing algorithms for real-time distance measurement is presented. Using embedded development kit (EDK) tools from Xilinx, the system is developed on a spartan3 / xc3s400, one of the common and low cost field programmable gate arrays from the Xilinx Spartan fami...

In this paper, we consider the step fixed-charge transportation problem (FCTP) in which a step fixed cost, sometimes called a setup cost, is incurred if another related variable assumes a nonzero value. In order to solve the problem, two metaheuristic, a spanning tree-based genetic algorithm (GA) and a spanning tree-based memetic algorithm (MA), are developed for this NP-hard problem. For compa...

This paper presents a new mathematical programming model for the bi-criteria mixed-model assembly line balancing problem in a just-in-time (JIT) production system. There is a set of criteria to judge sequences of the product mix in terms of the effective utilization of the system. The primary goal of this model is to minimize the setup cost and the stoppage assembly line cost, simultaneously. B...

This paper presents a production-inventory model for deteriorating items with stock-dependent demand under inflation in a random planning horizon. The supplier offers the retailer fully permissible delay in payment. It is assumed that the time horizon of the business period is random in nature and follows exponential distribution with a known mean. Here learning effect is also introduced for th...